Abstract
Medieval Jewish Community of Maribor
Highlights
In the Roman period, sparse Jewish settlement is attested in the area of Styria, for instance in present-day Austria at the Leibnitz Field in connection to Flavia Solva
Even though there are no testimonies to a Jewish presence within the area of Carantania until the appearance of Jewish villages in the 10th century, such testimonies can be located on its western and eastern edge
On the eastern edge of Carantania, Jews are explicitly mentioned in the Raffelsttäten Custom Regulations from 904–906 (Reg I, 1)
Summary
In the Roman period, sparse Jewish settlement is attested in the area of Styria, for instance in present-day Austria at the Leibnitz Field in connection to Flavia Solva. When Jewish traders, for instance, wanted to travel from Italy to Regensburg, they were obliged to cross the Alps, along which, due to security and organisational reasons, an entire network of trade posts and settlements developed, a sign of which are the so-called »Jewish villages« located along the trade routes in Eastern Alps. These settlements were either permanent with wooden or stone buildings or of more temporary and seasonal nature with temporary lodgings. Up to the end of the 12th century, when Jewish villages are already abandoned, permanent Jewish settlement exists in Carinthia in Villach, Friesach, and Völkermarkt, while in Styria in Graz and Judenburg, though not in Ptuj, as previously considered. (Jelinčič Boeta 2009a, 183–192)
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